Melbourne trio Obscura Hail has performed on stages draped in black VHS tape, and in front of projections of their own DIY footage of bushfires and portrayals of priests, nuns, undertakers and madmen. Before drummer Kaelan Edmond joined, Obscura Hail's beats issued from a Nintendo DS drum machine, which accompanied the basslines of former stand-up comic Tamara Issa. Established by their once-nomadic frontman-guitarist Sean Conran during the MySpace era as a soloacoustic folk project, the earliest Obscura Hail music was quietly recorded inside a house in Nowra. He now performs on stages wearing an electric lap steel guitar that he plays while standing.
Conran's current song-writing career was initially inspired by the time he spent in his old punk band, Vinyl
